On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 13:03 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 9/6/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/6/06, T. Horsnell <tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:23 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: > > > >> How can I get an FC5 system to boot without a video adapter? > > > >> At the moment, I cant even figure out how to tell grub that > > > >> it has no VGA, let alone Linux. Any ideas anyone? > > > >> > > > >> Cheers, > > > >> Terry > > > >> > > > > > > > >Why does it matter? I usually setup headless machines using a serial > > > >null cable: (AKA Serial console) > > > >All you need to do is configure grub [1] (and BIOS?), add serial console > > > > > > But this is what I cant figure out how to do. How to configure > > > grub so that it doesnt try to use video? > > > > > > Terry. > > > > > > > You seem to have missed the supplised links. > > > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-boot-loader-grub.html > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-kernel-grub.html > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/getty-agetty.html > > Not having a videocard is not at all the same thing as not having a > display. I've not seen any motherboards which will POST without some > kind of videocard. Most of the machines I use, on a daily basis, are headless. And by head-less I mean, no VGA output what-so-ever, only serial console. I'm talking about servers and embedded machines. You just need BIOS support for head-less operations. Gilboa
